Geena Davis has said that a potential male co-star didn’t approve of her casting because he thought she was too old.
“A certain male actor that was making a movie said that I was too old to be his romantic interest, and I was 20 years younger than him.”
However, at the time, Beetlejuice star Davis was 20 years younger than the unnamed actor.
In 2004, Davis founded the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, which researches gender representation in media and advocates for equal representation of women.